‘Paints, especially imported ones, grew two to two and half times more expensive. We retained our partnership with Montana and will work with Russian manufacturers. Most probably, we’ll be using noticeably more home-produced paints than foreign ones. Luckily, the quality of the former is already good enough,’ Fateyev says.

StreetArt executive says the current economic crisis has had no impact on the festival’s future whatsoever.

‘We keep on developing and will go on doing so. For one, we established a connection with Google Art Project and will soon launch a project on restoration of a number of street art objects,’ he adds.